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A good sorter at Amazon can do about 600 items per hour. A good robot can do 200 items per hour.
I give the robots maybe a year or two to surpass the Amazon workers, and then they will start being replaced. All fullfillment centers will start to move this way. Walmart, Target, and other big retailers that have bought out huge warehouses in Kentucky and Tennessee in order to keep up with Amazon, don't even have air conditioning in those buildings. The human workers are complaining, but industrial robots can work in those conditions and never complain about anything.
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